Seeing the way Pakistan captain Babar Azam is making runs in international cricket, cricket pundits are calling him the run machine of modern cricket. A while back today, this tag was with Indian star batsman Virat Kohli when he was at the peak of his career. Babar is often compared to Virat Kohli and the star player of Pakistan has broken many of Kohli’s records, but Babar Azam will have to do a lot of penance to match him. Babar Azam smashed several records by scoring his 19th ODI century against Nepal on Wednesday. He has become the fastest batsman to score 19 centuries in ODI cricket, Virat is far behind him in this list. If Babar manages to maintain the same consistency in his career, he can break many more records of King Kohli in future.
Talking about Babar Azam’s record, with his 13th ODI century, he has already set the record for the fastest century. Currently, he is busy breaking the records of former South African batsman Hashim Amla, but in the future, his target will be the records of Virat Kohli.
If we talk about fastest century scorers in ODI cricket then there are 17 players who have scored a century in their first innings. At the same time, there are 2 players who took three innings to score their second century. Apart from this, the list of players to score the fastest triple centuries includes Imam-ul-Haq, Janeman Malan and Ibrahim Zadran who took 8 innings.
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The record of fastest 4 centuries in 9 innings is held by Pakistan opening batsman Imam Ul Haq. Quinton de Kock and Imam ul Haq (19 innings) fastest 5 centuries, 6 century – Imam ul Haq (27 innings), 7 century – Babar Azam (33 innings), 8 century – Hashim Amla (43 innings), 9 century – Imam ul Haq (48 innings), 10 century- Quinton de Kock (55 innings), 11 century- Hashim Amla (64 innings), 12 century- Quinton de Kock (74 innings).
After this Babar Azam started establishing his dominance. Babar now holds the record for fastest to reach this milestone from 13 to 19 centuries in ODI cricket.
Babur took 76 innings for 13th century, 81 for 14th, 83 for 15th, 84 for 16th, 85 for 17th, 97 for 18th and 102 for 19th century. If Babar Azam is to reach the fastest 20th century, he will have to score a century in the next 6 innings.
Hashim Amla holds the record for fastest 20 centuries in ODI cricket who achieved this feat in 108 innings. Not only that, Hashim Amla ruled from the 20th to the 27th century.
After this, Virat Kohli’s name comes in this legendary list. Kohli has so far held the record for the fastest century from 28th to 46th century. There is no match for him here, but the form and class Babar is showing, it can be said that he can match Virat Kohli in the future.